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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What slows the boat for most of the journey?
(a) There is not enough manpower.
(b) The sail is damaged.
(c) The water is rough.
(d) The wind is against the boat.

2. Who informs the Carson sisters of their brother's murder?
(a) Their uncle.
(b) Their father.
(c) Their nurse.
(d) Their tutor.

3. What chore is Mrs. Jones carrying out when Job visits her home?
(a) Baking.
(b) Folding laundry.
(c) Ironing.
(d) Making the beds.

4. Why does Mary ask a doctor to declare Jane Wilson unfit to travel?
(a) So that Mary can save Jem on her own.
(b) So that Mary does not have to travel with Jane.
(c) So that Jane can rest some more.
(d) So that Jane won't have to testify at Jem's trial.

5. Where does Charley tell Job the boat Mary rode has gone?
(a) To Edinburgh.
(b) To Cheshire.
(c) To Paris.
(d) To London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the lawyer that Job hires?

2. What does Mary lose from her pocket upon returning to the shore in Chapter 28?

3. What lie does Job tell Jane about Mary in Chapter 30?

4. How is Harry Carson murdered?

5. Instead of money, what does Mary offer two sailors as pay?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sally Leadbitter say Mary should rethink giving up her job?

2. Who does Jane blame for Jem's arrest?

3. What does Charley Jones clarify about the John Cropper sailing out?

4. What lie does Job tell Jane Wilson in Chapter 30?

5. How has Alice Wilson's stroke affected her, and who cares for her?

6. What does Jem ask of Job in the letter he writes him?

7. What effect does the summons to testify against her son have on Jane Wilson?

8. How does Jane Wilson feel about Jem and Mary as a couple?

9. How does Mary end up going home with one of the sailors?

10. Why does Mary want the doctor to declare Jane too sick to travel?

(see the answer keys)

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